Observability Contracts in South London

Observability
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 33 53
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing Observability 2 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.08% 3.72% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 3.98% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £555 - £675
25th Percentile £563 £425 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £676
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -24.13% +17.48%
75th Percentile £588 £522 £676
90th Percentile £595 £553 £676
London median daily rate £563 £575 £800
% change year-on-year -2.17% -28.13% +23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

Observability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 226 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.57% 93.39% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 152 277
10th Percentile £380 £216 £300
25th Percentile £463 £422 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £675
90th Percentile £876 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%
75th Percentile £20.38 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in South London

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in South London.

Daily rate trend for Observability in South London

Observability
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Croydon 0 1 £600 +28.00%
Observability
London

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Confluent
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace